In 2025 Damon de Laszlo was awarded ‘Commanders of the Order of the British Empire’ (CBE) in the King’s Birthday Honours List 2025: ‘Damon Patrick De Laszlo DL. For services to the Manufacturing Industry and to Scientific and Charitable Causes’.

Damon de Laszlo is the co-founder and Chairman of the Bradshaw Foundation. In this capacity, over the past 30 years Damon has led many Bradshaw Foundation field trips to various parts of the world in order to help discover, document and preserve ancient rock art. Beginning in 1993 he joined a small group including Robert Hefner III, John Robinson, Grahame Walsh, Michael McGuire, Giles Mead and Bruce Dyson to explore the rock art sites of the Kimberley in north western Australia. This led to the publication of ‘Bradshaws: Ancient Rock Paintings of North-West Australia’ in 1994.

In 1995 he led a field trip to Rapa Nui - Easter Island - with archaeologist and rock art researcher Dr Georgia Lee, along with John and Margie Robinson.

In 1999 a field trip Cairo was organised with Dr Nabil Swelim to view the recently discovered Tomb of Vizier Fefi, excavated at the Step pyramid of Saqqara by the by the archaeological team of Professor Karol Mysliwiec from the Polish Academy of Sciences for Mediterranean Archaeology. That same year, a visit including John Robinson, Dr Jean Clottes and Count Robert Bégouën took place to the Cavernes du Volp - consisting of consists of three cave systems Les Trois Freres, Enlene, and Tuc d’Audoubert - in the foothills of the French Pyrenees to be shown the 15,000 year old sculptures of the Bull and Cow Bison.

1999 ended with an expedition to the Tenere Desert in the Sahara with Robert Hefner III, John Robinson, Dr Jean Clottes and David Coulson. Dabous is the home to one of the largest known animal petroglyphs in the world - two life-size giraffe carved in stone. The purpose of this preservation project was two-fold; now was the time to take the mould because these highly significant carvings were still in near-perfect condition; and by publicising the importance of the carvings, their value would be realised and their protection guaranteed. Although much focus during this expedition was on the giraffe carvings, they are in fact just a part of what Dabous holds. A second expedition a year later included an archaeological survey carried out by the Bradshaw Foundation and led by Jean Clottes. This documented over 800 hundred smaller yet no less significant carvings on the outcrop, as well as the successful drilling of a water well.

In 2004 Damon led a field trip with Henk & Eliane Hooft to Georgia to investigate the hills forts of the Caucasus.

In 2005 Damon was invited by Dr Jean Clottes to view the cave art of Chauvet in the Ardeche of southern France. The small group was made up of Robert Hefner III, Dr Jill Cook from the British Museum and Peter Robinson. Also in France, a field trip into Niaux Cave took place in 2006 with Dr Jean Clottes and John and Tim Robinson, and to help to help fund a project to pump out a lake that blocked access to Galerie Cartailhac.

In 2007 Damon led a field trip to view the San rock art of the Drakensberg in South Africa, joined by Dr Ben Smith and Peter Robinson.

In 2010 Damon led a field trip to China to study the rock art of the Helan Mountains of Inner Mongolia, accompanied by Dr Jill Cook and Peter Robinson. The timing of the field trip was chosen to coincide with the 2010 Third Annual Rock Art Festival & Seminar, held at the Yinchuan Museum and the Northern Nationalities University in Yinchuan. The Festival was officially opened to an audience of over a thousand, on a sunny morning on the steps of the Museum with the jagged Helan Mountains behind, by Mr. Mi, President of the Northern Nationalities University. The opening speeches were followed by the exchange of gifts between the Foundation & the Museum. Damon presented an edition of the aluminium cast of the Dabous Giraffe carving taken some years earlier in the Sahara. Mr. Li, the Curator of the Yinchuan Museum of World Rock Art, in turn presented the petroglyph rubbing of the ‘Sun God’, the iconic petroglyph of Helankou.

In 2014 Damon led a field trip, again to China, to study the rock art of the Zuojiang Huashan Cultural Landscape and to join an international seminar to discuss the Huashan rock art in the context of World Heritage status. This was granted a few years later.

In 2018 Damon led a field trip to investigate the 'Great Murals of Sierra de San Francisco' at Baja California in Mexico. The purpose of the expedition was to view rock art sites in the Sierra de San Francisco whilst initiating a formal working relationship with the California Rock Art Foundation and Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History [INAH - Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México].

In 2025 Damon led a team from the Bradshaw Foundation to Spain where it was granted unprecedented access to four significant cave sites in Andalucía.

The primary objective of this visit was to deepen the team's understanding of the complex chronological and technological methods used in cave archaeology, as well as to address the conservation challenges faced in this region of southern Europe. The itinerary included visits to the "El Cantal" cave system, which comprises Higuerón, La Victoria, and El Tesoro caves, the renowned Nerja Cave system and then finally the spectacular Cueva de la Pileta Cave in Benaoján with its impressive painted and engraved panels.